Before I founded The Neuro Consultants, I lived a million different lives. 

In college, I studied wildlife biology thinking I wanted to train exotic animals for movies. Which is how I almost ended up on Tiger King. (Seriously, I made it all the way through the process and, thankfully, decided to pass because I noticed just a few red flags…)

I was a wildlife biologist across the nation and internationally in Sri Lanka, China, and Africa, and then switched to working for the USDA-APHIS department. Then, I pivoted into working at the Smithsonian, but when I was offered a full-time job, I decided to part ways in hopes of more stability and better benefits.

After all that, I was inspired to open a cat cafe.

I had the space picked out, the business plan drafted up, and the loans ready to go when a woman came into the restaurant where I was bartending for lunch. Before I knew it, she had talked me into becoming a nonprofit consultant. 

I learned so much during those years because when you work with nonprofits, you help with everything from planning events to filing taxes. 

A few years into that job, I was diagnosed with autism (self-diagnosed at first and then by a specialist later on). Around that time, I tried to get therapy through my insurance. And the process ended up being so impossible that it made me realize how absurdly under-supported the neurodivergent community is. 

That’s when I got the idea to launch The Neuro Consultants!